The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-07-21
OHIO NATURAL GAS,
Marat HaIstead's Graphic Description o'
the Great Findlay Wells

tNo 9Ient EihtA@s ''~
The business street Of Findlay hap
pens to be on the b6uhdary-line be.
tween the gas and oil fields. NORM oi
the street there is gas, south OF it OH,
ttiis III 4 depth u between twelve aud
thirteen hdiidfed feet
The Karg well is the greatest Of the
gas strikes. It was for several riiSntIis
uncontrollable, pouring out with roar
like that Of Niagara. When II mac
been hariiessed down for couple OF
months, it broke oui again worse than
evef. The power OF the well, so far as
| 1t is possible to Judge, is greater tlian
at first, but the instrument used to test
the force Of the gas in firifis heavy ar
tillery would be required to prove sny
thing. If one could imagine string
! Of steam boilers under about four hum
dred pounds pressure put up like Chi
nese crackers and exploded AS Il pack
Of crackers are fired. he uould realize
the Karg well turned loose. Even
the engineer who handles the lever To
turn the gas OH, OF off, rather--that
is, to let it go--is afraid 81 w. for it
screeches, yells, yoars. howls and re-
vsrberates. 1t seems to be mad-to
have an awful fit of everlasting anger.
! An attempt was made to discharge the
Karg well through lofty petpendic-
ular pipe, but the pressure was so greaf
tho pipe could not be maintained, SO
the blow-off is at the edge of the rivei
and horizontal When it is lighted thu
fame is as a balloon or pearin shape,
and glows as the sun, looking like one
of those resplcndent protuberances the
astronomers see at the edge of the sur
In eclipses.
There are thirty wells about Findlay
, that yield gss, and there have been bur
| three or four failures to get it on the
) right side of the town. Very little gas
is wasted at this time when new wells
are opened. The earth is removed near
the drill, heavy walls built. and iron
braces arranged to sustain the valves,
and thus the benefiCent monster Il
collared and made ready for the con
Meeting pipes !.
a But the gas is not tractable as oil. II
4 refuses to flow down hill, and its force
Q departs from il rapidly. The natura
: gas will burn brick or LIME to perfection
: and without cost, or at any rate an ex-
. pense so trifling that it need not b'
2 counted. This provides building ma
, terial of the best, and the supply is suh
I cient to reproduce Babylon.
J, How long will the gas lastP That i
the contirdrum, It is found in por
4 GUS limestone, which must be prodig
I ious storehouse of gas and oil. We cal
$ not well estimate what is going on il
Q the bosom of the earth. The wells a
Findlay are about quarter OF n mill
J, deep. What there is in the next tel
!, miles who shall sayP The burden o
a belief is that the gas will continue to b.
s evolved from the earth; that it Is the
= product of certain vast combinations
t including the cracking of the crust o
Y the earth by the quakes that are th'
= commissions of the continent Som
hold that the gas is product of petro
leum, but the weighter opinion Is th't
4 the petroleum is the product of th
, gas, even as whisky is condensation
: OF vapor The gas, under pressure ant
: subjected to low temperature, is dis
V titled into petroleum, is the theory.
It The division that Findlay mark
d between the gas and oil fields is re
d markable. Just now Findlay talk i
j all of gas. The day may come whe
= the petroleum will be highest in favor
o As the case stands it costs somethin
% more than 81 900 5000 or $500 more
g possibly-to bore gus well and &c
Q it ready for piping, and $4,000 to driv
= an oil well and provide tanks that tn
a flow may not be wasted.
"a In the oil country the drill strike
t first gas, second oil, and third sa
water, and the trick is to bore close
the salt water without tapping it. I'll
deeper you go without striking the sa
y the better, but if the salt water
n struck the well is spoiled. A new Q
i. well-a gusher-about four miles fro
st Findlay, was visited. 1t was in Il
10 corner of cornfeld, and three 80
is barrel tanks had been mat
"a "a ready. One of these was full with OIL
- - DAYS gush, and the oil w
g forced into the second through tv
two-inch pipes. AT intervals the dal
product poured with an immense splu
tering, fairly boiling with gas, and II
70 into the tank MS if rushed by his
~ n steam. Then the flow would cease
- few minutes, and be resumed wi
,e hoarse and gurgling fury. The actic
mt is quite like that of geyser, only &
Of geyser is sseam-hole, and the prctI
leum is thrown to the surface by I
natural gas, and with it bubbles Ii
champagne.
~ ~ Along the country road to tho G
., well one could see in the grass the rus
he lines of the pipe carrying the produ
ng of the neighboring wells to stora
IN tanks nine miles distant, and the gl
he ters by the roadside were often-dar
and the grass stained with OIL I
marks of superabundant flows we
frequent in this county. There we
RS pools that appeared to beof petroleu
n in some of the fields, and large patch
a. discolored by it, Cincinnati CONNIE
cial- Gazette.
1t is said that woman began 3
- manufacture of sewing thread in L
n. gland in 1922, and it would see
a. proper that the idea should have fiji
nd come from that sex through who
20 hands nine-tenths of the thread pass